Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, said: “This government’s policies are not just crushing our economy, they are hobbling our nation’s ability to work it’s way out of recession.

“Ordinary men and women are working two jobs to get by, but they and their families are being hammered twice – once by the bill for the banker’s blowout and then again by cuts to the services that sustain our communities.

“Over and over again this government is trampling all over ordinary people and squashing hope. We need to stand up and say an emphatic ‘no’, this is not what we voted for.

“We are urging people to come together on 20 October and say to Cameron and Co, that they do not have the right to do this to the people of this country.

“If we don’t, then all that we hold dear – our schools, hospitals, communities – will fall further into decline.”